Supergirl Adds Supervillain Metallo For Season 2

Relative unknown Frederick Schmidt has been cast as the DC supervillain Metallo in Supergirl season two, reports Entertainment Weekly. Metallo is set to appear in at least two episodes, starting with the premiere episode.

According to EW, “When international assassin John Corben is badly injured after taking on both Supergirl and Superman, he is reborn by a shadow organisation into the Kryptonite-powered supervillain Metallo.”

A radioactive cyborg powered by green Kryptonite, Metallo first appeared in Action Comics #252 (1959) and has gone through various looks and ranges of powers over the following decades, sometime more human, sometimes more robot.